a8907433 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 6:41 pm
That is good news! What period of time we we are talking of until this will realized? half a year, more than a year....? What about portability and size? Chromium is much bigger than EPIM! Is Chromium independent from Google? Nevertheless, I love EPIM, Thank you!
Chromium is an open source web browser who's biggest contributor is Google.
Chrome is that source code of that project compiled with Googles black box code.
Web browsers are not engines.
IE = Trident
Chrome = Webkit->Blink
Opera Pre-buyout = Presto After buyout = Webkit->Blink
Safari = Webkit
FIrefox = Gekco [modern firefox still calls their engine Gekco but it is very different than the classic Geko that was forked to make Goanna]
Palemoon = Goanna a fork of Classic Gekco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso ... er_engines
History wise KHTML is what was forked to make Webkit which was then forked to make Blink
There are also many smaller custom engines that do very limited things such as only rendering CSS and HTML and not supporting Javascript...etc.
Thunderbird = based on firefox
Current day outlook = based on EDGE/BLINK
The bat recently updated their Email client to use their own custom engine so that it only renders HTML and CSS thus making it more secure by not even having script functionality to exploit. A lot of older email clients also used their own custom engines as well, as HTML and CSS are the only things that should be in Emails and building your own rendering engine for them is a relatively simple task given the libraries available. Script support is what makes most web browsers big, heavy, complex, and prone to security issues.
Anyway digressing if they use Blink then they will probably use a framework for it to make the job easier and faster. EPIM with no data is around 40~ish MB now, most Blink Frameworks are around 100~140MB which will probably mean EPIMs install size will grow to 140~180MB-ish.
By most storage standards or compared to other programs of the same type below 200MB is pretty small and very easily portable. It's been many years since I've owned a USB key smaller than 2GB